14 New Bridge Street, EC4Built: 1802-1808Architect: James LewisLocation: New Bridge StreetListing: Grade II* (1950) In the middle ages and early modern era, two major complexes defined the area circumscribed by Fleet Street to the north, Temple Inn to the west… Read More »Bridewell Gatehouse
Both New Bridge Street and the Victoria Embankment are relatively late additions to the City’s largely medieval street pattern. New Bridge Street was created in 1764, essentially following the course of and covering over the Fleet Ditch, leading to the… Read More »New Bridge Street & Victoria Embankment
4 John Carpenter Street & 1 Tallis Street, EC4Built: 1885-87Architect: Sir Horace Jones, extension by Andrew MurrayLocation: Bridewell Listing: Grade II (1980) Founded in 1880 the Guildhall School of Music and Drama has grown from 62 students to roughly 1,000… Read More »Guildhall School of Music
now Victoria House 23-27 Tudor Street& 8-10 Temple Avenue, EC4Built: 1896-1897Architect: Charles Valentine Hunter Location: WhitefriarsListing: Grade II (1997) In stylistic terms, this building borders on eclectic historicism and it is a good example of a recurring issue we face… Read More »Argus Printing Co.
2-4 Temple Avenue & 40 Victoria Embankment, EC4Built: 1898-1902Architect: Albert Nelson Bromley Location: Whitefriars ‒ Victoria EmbankmentListing: Grade II (1972) This building is one of several, in the UK, known as Telephone House. It extends along a full block of… Read More »Telephone House
The locations named above comprise the area bordered to the west by the Temple, to the north by Fleet Street, to the east by New Bridge Street (built over the Fleet River) and to the south by the Thames. ‘Bridewell’… Read More »Bridewell & Whitefriars
66-67 Cornhill, EC3Built: 1880-1881Architect: Thomas Chatfield ClarkeLocation: CornhillListing: Grade II (1977) Variously described as “Italian Renaissance” by recent historians and “in the style of Francois I” (early French Renaissance) by Chatfield Clarke, the overall arrangement of this building seems to… Read More »London & Lancashire Life Assurance
now The Counting House 50 Cornhill, EC3Built: 1891-92Architect: Henry Cowell BoyesLocation: CornhillListing: Grade II (1997) Sandwiched between a rare (for the City) modernist 1930s building and the last 18th century house on Cornhill, the former Prescott Bank building at No.… Read More »Prescott Bank
39-41 Cornhill, EC3Built: 1889-1890Architect: John Macvicar AndersonLocation: CornhillListing: Grade II (1970) For much of the history of the City of London, the main source of short-term mercantile financing was through the discounting of bills of exchange. While accepting houses (largely… Read More »Union Discount Company
2 Royal Exchange Buildings, EC2 Built: 1906-1910Architect: Sir Ernest George & Alfred YeatesLocation: CornhillListing: Grade II (1997) The Royal Exchange Buildings are separated from the East side of the Royal Exchange by a broad pedestrianised passage, featuring several monuments. Fountains,… Read More »Royal Exchange Buildings